Ashley Furniture Industries Inc. recently announced plans to build a 35,000-square-foot showroom at 1351 Earl Rudder Freeway next to Varsity Ford Lincoln Mercury dealership in College Station.
The business plans to open around Jan. 15. The furniture store was founded in Wisconsin in 1945 and has expanded to six states. The company manufactures dining, living and [...]

The Cebu International Convention Center (CICC) will not become another white elephant after the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Summit next month.
Eric Mendoza, president of the Mandaue Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), dismissed speculations that the CICC, like some projects of the government, will become idle after the international event.
“One of the events [...]

As part of its continuous efforts to be closely connected to its clients, Midas furniture participated in ‘EKAR INVEST 2006′ exhibition held from November 6-10, 2006 at the Abdali Project Amman.
Within their booth, Midas furniture displayed a selection of their new line of products recently launched.
“Midas furniture has participated in this exhibition amongst many local, [...]

An increasing number of retailers are vying for a slowing furniture market on the Grand Strand and in Brunswick County, N.C.
While furniture sales across the United States have become the latest casualty of of slowing home sales and rising fuel costs, that problem is multiplied for retailers here who are splitting smaller pieces of a [...]

When the pilgrims arrived on the shores of America they were confronted with great stands of forest. Oak, pine, maple and more jockeyed for space to grow in this wild landscape. Special among the variety were the huge oak trees that would become furniture for thousands and thousands of Americans as time moved along.
Back in [...]

Two seemingly innocuous words, right? Yet they’re enough to send some of us reaching for a paper bag (slow, steady breaths now). But before we start hyperventilating and working ourselves into rip-roaring tizzies, take a look at the calendar.
You have less than two three weeks until Thanksgiving. It’s time to spruce up around the house. [...]

Around 260 businesses are joining in a Trade Villages Exhibition and Vietnam Handicraft Products Competition 2006 which opened yesterday at the Vietnam Agriculture Exhibition and Marketing Centre in Hanoi.
Addressing the opening ceremony, Bach Quoc Khang, Head of Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, head of the exhibition’s organising board, said the exhibition, [...]

When High Point offered as much as $600,000 to lure La-Z-Boy’s regional office from Greensboro to High Point, it violated an informal rule among Triad cities that they not poach each other’s businesses.
The understanding between cities promotes cooperation and keeps focus on the most important goal: recruiting jobs to the Piedmont Triad from other areas, [...]

Margaret “Maggie” Wasserman lives in northern New Jersey, but the Harahan native had insight on how to help New Orleanians recovering from Hurricane Katrina, having grown up in a local clan of 18 siblings.
Tapping the enthusiasm of her community in northern New Jersey and the Student Council at her children’s high school, Wasserman, 46, helped [...]

The star power may have been lacking at the fall High Point Market (formerly the International Home Furnishings Market) last week, with Martha Stewart conspicuously absent for the launch of her new furniture collection with Bernhardt. But there definitely wasn’t a shortage of buzz-worthy introductions. Here are a few new furniture lines and pieces that [...]